Fraternity has been forced to halt its "Old South" festivities due to racial insensitivity

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A white fraternity that traces its roots to the Civil War and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is again facing complaints over its antebellum-themed events.

This time, University of Alabama alumnae are upset after Kappa Alpha Order members wearing Confederate uniforms and carrying battle flags paraded past a historically black sorority as the women celebrated the group's 35th anniversary.

The fraternity has been forced to halt its "Old South" festivities on some campuses because of claims of racial insensitivity, and Alabama members have apologized for pausing in front of Alpha Kappa Alpha's sorority house during this year's parade.

Alpha Kappa Alpha members said there was no confrontation or taunting, but they were shocked to see fraternity members in rebel uniforms and white women from another sorority in hoop skirts.

"I don't believe these young folks were in any way trying to be racist," said Joyce Stallworth, an Alpha Kappa Alpha alumna who saw the April 29 parade in Tuscaloosa and is an associate education dean at Alabama. "But they were being insensitive. I don't think they understood the broader implications of what they were doing."

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This is old news, but it was new to me so I thought I'd share it.

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were shocked to see fraternity members in rebel uniforms and white women

Notice how they were shocked to see "white women" I guess they are becoming a rare sight in Birmingham.

It's ok for negros to celebrate their history, but it's racist if white people honor their heritage.

Re: Fraternity has been forced to halt its "Old South" festivities due to racial insensitivity

Yeah those white women in hoop skirts are a symbol of evil racism for sure.

There will never be an end to the list of things which offend negros so why would any sensible person even try to reason with them? The race card has been so overplayed that it no longer has an impact except on grovelling white liberals.

Next year add a minstrel band complete with blackface and play them a few choruses of Ole Man Ribber. They are going to whine anyway so let the white kids have a little fun.

Re: Fraternity has been forced to halt its "Old South" festivities due to racial insensitivity

What WILL NOT be older news is when you see, read and hear of more and more European White American themed, very longtime traditions stifled or stopped altogether.
Watch, it will come to Highland Games, German Festivals/Octoberfest, Civil War Re-enactments where everyone in their whole family goes for days and camps, and Daughters of the Civil War, all this will become a bone of contention with the blacks and pc's

Re: Fraternity has been forced to halt its "Old South" festivities due to racial insensitivity

Shocked to see white women and seeing whites celebrating their culture?

Oh, so it's for blacks, mexicans and such to celebrate their history, but white's can't? It's OK for a majority black school, but a majority white school NEEDS other races in it too? It's ok for black history month, but not ok for white history month?

Damn this country and it's liberal brainwashing. All of these race traitors should be lined up and shot.

Re: Fraternity has been forced to halt its "Old South" festivities due to racial insensitivity

"I don't think they understood the broader implications of what they were doing."

And I don't think you "madame", with a gun to your head could even hope to expound any further upon your statement regarding perceived "broader implications" unless you were sucking your thumb and crying about some form of slavery you never knew beyond a hollywood movie or some judaized elementary school curriculum you couldn't comprehend. No sane, healthy people have ever really cared about what black people think, nor have they ever cared to hear them wax philosophic about anything. It is an excersize in futility. I'd sooner watch a play written by all the dogs in my neighborhood than listen to some room temperature IQ boon tell me what she thinks about anything.

Here here !!! And those fella's better keep them uniforms dry and pressed because as the dismantling of America continues the restoration of the Confederacy is getting closer and closer to becoming a reality.